DIGHTON — In baseball, you make some plays and then you’re not so lucky.

On Monday, the Dighton-Rehoboth baseball team was victimized by their own blunders.

The South Coast Conference co-champion Falcons committed four errors and stranded 12 baserunners as second seed D-R was eliminated from the tournament after losing to 10th-seed Dartmouth, 6-1, in a Division II South quarterfinal game at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School.

The Falcons end their season 17-5.

“We had our opportunities,” D-R head coach Bill Cuthbertson said. “At this level of competition, you have to play pretty much a clean game if you want to advance. We did not do that today.”

Dan Southerland picked up the win on the hill for the Indians (15-7). He scattered 11 hits, walked two and fanned seven in his 129-pitch effort. He was in control for the most part, throwing 85 pitches for strikes.

“Give Southerland credit,” Cuthbertson said. “He is a high-end pitcher. He’s very good. With men on base, he made some very good pitches.”

Joey Rogers was the tough-luck loser for the Falcons. He, too, went the distance on the hill

“I thought Joey Rogers pitched an excellent game,” Cuthbertson said. “He did exactly what he was supposed to do. There was just too many misplays behind him, too many extra outs against a good team.”

D-R trailed early 4-0 in the sixth before scoring its first run. The Indians managed to escape a bases-loaded situation to keep it a three-run game. Dartmouth added a pair of insurance runs in the top of the seventh to increase the lead to 6-1. The Falcons got two runners on base in their final at bats but could not score.

“Give our kids credit for having the season they had,” Cuthbertson said.

Senior captains Nate Swartz and Keith DeBlois combined for five of the 11 hits on the day for D-R.

It was not the way the pair wanted the season to end.

“It just did not fall our way today,” Swartz said. “We worked really hard. We had a lot of young players. You have to keep working hard and fight through the bad times. People were saying that we didn’t have a chance for the title but we managed to get a piece of it.”

Cuthbertson had nothing but praises afterwards for his captains.

“Nate Swartz and Keith DeBlois have been with me for four years,” Cuthbertson said. “They have done a real good job as captains with a young and inexperience team.”